Category Archives: LEGO Hobby Train

New Trains for 2010 but limitations persist

January 21, 2010 – 5:10 pm

New Trains!
When I first saw some links to the 2010 trains I was excited.  These would be the first trains to be based on the Power Functions and in my opinion, the first train sets to come from LEGO since the decision to drop the 9v line.  One could argue that there were two RC [...]

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Cool background on the Emerald Night

January 21, 2010 – 3:14 pm

I am not sure how I missed then when it was posted, but I just saw the link today on Eurobricks  (which admittedly I don’t visit very often).

There is some pretty cool footage in the video and some insight into the LEGO Vault. There is also an brief view of the LEGO Hobby Train [...]

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2010 LEGO Train Sets

December 24, 2009 – 11:13 am

I saw a link to this image on the WamaLUG mailing list.

You can read a bit more about 2010 LEGO Trains in this article on BrickSet.  A couple of initial thoughts:

It is nice to see LEGO Trains coming back and as expected, they are Power Function based.
I really wish LEGO would release individual train [...]

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NCLTC at LEGOPalooza

January 16, 2009 – 2:49 pm

I have been working on the layout plan for the NCLTC layout at LEGOPalooza lately.  This is an interesting layout because we are going to use standard banquet tables instead of our own tables.  It is nice because hauling the tables around and setting them up is a real chore.  However, they aren’t an ideal [...]

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Looking inside my UTB K8

September 5, 2007 – 9:42 am

Here is the box as I opened it although the baseplates were not stacked so nicely.

I pulled the baseplates out first and set them aside.  I had specifically asked for baseplates because the last time we had the NCLTC layout set up, we were really short of baseplates to cover the open areas of the [...]

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